The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-19
Maryland Affairs.

case on hand. Mlillem Monroe, cOlOreu; mas
been jailed for assault on Julia Ann Gill, also
colored.
Crisield had a $4,000 FIRE on Thursday
night. Seven buildings were burned and two
were torn down to stop the spread of the
flames.
Robert Garrett, of Baltimore, has given
IS, 900 toward the new art museum at Prince
ton College. His brother t. Harrison Gar
rett had previously given $1,000.
Mrs Catharine Combs died at her residence
in St. Mary's county on Wednesday of last
week, aged 80 years. Her husband, six years
her senior, survives her. They had been
married SO years.
A sugar refinery is to be located near
Curtis Bay. Mr.. Robert Garrett has sub
scribed for $3.50, 900 worth of stock. Other
prominent Baltimoreans and Bostonians are
interested in the project.
Rev. Arthur H. Thompson has sued the
Commissioners of Montgomery county for
81, 900 for injuries from being upset in buggy
moved to Frederick county and came up for
trial on Tuesday, with fifty or more witnesses
in attendance.
DIR. David Sterett Cuttings died Saturday,
in the Goth year of his age, at his home, in
one of the most respected residents of the
eleventh district of Baltimore county, and had
practiced medicine until between two and
three years ago.
Another child of Oliver Jones, who resides
in Elk Neck, three miles from Elkton, died
of diphtheria on Monday. That mSttbe third
child of Mr.. Jones to die of tbs "A tb;s
in about two weeks. Three J. Anu inns
of his have been i'll of dipheS the offendin
mother now has it.
Cardinals Gibbons and Taschereau were
given the red hats on Thursday in Rome at a
public consistory in the Sala Regla. Six
other Cardinals were hated at the same time.
Subsequently. at u private audience given to
the cardinals by the Pope, the latter address
ed himself entirely to the American cardinals,
and spoke good words of the Church in the
United States and Canada.
About half past eleven o'clock on Friday
night of last week, Henry Berwanger, son of
BENJAMIN Berwanger, of the firm of Likes,
Berwanger & Co., of Baltimore, shot and
killed Carrie Peltz, at his fathers house,
where the young woman was employed as a
domestic No cause for the shooting can be
discovered. The young man deliberately
shot the woman, while she was talking with a
friend in the nursery, without giving any sign
of his intentions, firing from another ROOM
His mind had been affected, and he had been
in an asylum for treatment, but cure was
supposed to have been made.
Mr.. George Cotton, the retiring president
of the Baltimore board of police commits
sioners, was Tuesday evening presented with a
handsome set of solid silverware by the men,
bers of the police department. The pieces,
in beautiful repousse work, include coffee urn,
two teapots, sugar bowl, finger bowl, cream
pitcher, ice pitcher and two large walters.
The cost of the gift was S1,040 The inscrip-
ton in the centre piece of the largest waiter is
as follows: presented to the Hon. George
Cotton, ex-President of the Board of Police
Commissioners of the City of Baltimore, by
the Members of the Police Department, in
recognition of his ability, fidelity and friend
ship Baltimore, March Is, 1881" The
name of Mr.. Cotton is engraved upon each
piece.
Plus J.. Plunkard, of Frederick district, was
tried in the Circuit Court at Frederick on
Friday of last week on an Indictment for bas-
tardy and found guilty. The indictment was
demurred to on the ground of the unconstitu-
tionality of the bastardy law, and the question
was argued at length by States Attorney Nor
wood and Messrs. Motter and Wood before
full bench, consisting of Judge Richie and
Associate Judges Lynch and Vinson. On Sat
urday the court unanimously decided that the
law is constitutional. An appeal was immedi-
ately taken, and it is thought likely that the
case will soon be reached in the Court of APP
peals. This is the first time that the law has
been sustained in the State by full bench.
Plunkard has been sentenced to six months
imprisonment in the county Jail.
The Towsontown Journal says: Much in
Ia.n fad hut hos
along the proposed line of The Caves and
Worthington Valley Railroad, which will
shortly be surveyed by authority of the Penn
sylvania Railroad. This road will pass through
one of the most beautiful and fertile regions
Of our STATE; uJerTffT 4
wealth in minerals and farming lands has
heretofore been almost unknown because of
its inaccessibility. 1t is a wise move, both
upon the part Of the property holders and the
great Pennsylvania corporation. Connecting
with the Green Spring Branch of the N. c.
r. R., the road will pass through The Caves
and Worthington Valley; thence by way of
Dover and Black Rock to Hofiman's Paper
Mills, Beckleysville, Trenton, etc. We hear
that over 100000 is now in progress of sub
scription, and great enthusiasm is exhibited.
We know the enterprise is much needed and
wish it well.
The large Switzer barn on the upper farm
of Thomas r. Jarboe, at-ilmekiln Switch,
which was destroysdb by fire at late hour
Wednesday night, was the finest structure of
the kind in Frederick county. The loss on
the barn and contents will amount to $4,000,
upon which there is an insurance in the old
Mutual Company, of Frederick county, of
about SO, 300 Sixteen hundred bushels OF
wheat, 20 bushels of cloverseed, 20 tons of
hay and $50 barrels of corn, the latter in a
shed adjoining the barn; lot of harness, a
threshing machine belonging to Wisner Flee
GER and number of farming utensils were
DESTROYED In the barn at the time was a fine
imported Percheron stallion, the property of
John White & Son, of the Moreland stock
farm, and for which they had refused $1,000.
In endeayoring to lead him from the stable, his
eye was punched out by hook in the wall.
The cause of the fire is supposed to have been
of an incendiary nature.
The residence of VIM. L. Hopkins, two
miles north of Port Deposit, was the scene of
intense excitement last Saturday afternoon,
occasioned by the accidental shooting of a
little fve-year- old boy by his sister, aged thir-
teen. 1t appears that an old gun barrel minus
the stock had been lying around the Hopkins
residence for years. The barrel had been
examined and pronounced empty. The chill
Qren were lueEtlOIt diAOnSu " dhiuoC tuOhi-
selves with it at play. On Saturday afternoon
they procured their old barrel and proceeded
to load it with sand. firing of the amuse-
ment the little girl suggested thatit would be
fine fun to put cap on the tube and crack it.
Searching around, they eventually found one.
She stationed her little brother at the muzzle
to hold the barrel while she endeayored to
explode the cap by repeatedly striking it with
a hammer. In this she was finally success
full. A terrific explosion was heard and the
mangled body of the little boy was thrown
PROSTATE upon the ground. The barrel, which
was supposed to have been empty, contained
a heavy charge of shot, which struck the little
fellow in the groin, and proceeding upward
lodged in his body, producing q CHASTITY
wound He was carried into the house, but
expired in few moments from hemorrhage.
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